The Handbook of Rationality (2021, MIT press) is now open access

post by romeostevensit · 2023-10-10T00:30:05.589Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

Of particular interest here is section 4.1 on subjective accounts of probability and section 8.4 which explicitly addresses Knightian uncertainty and its challenges for Bayesian accounts.

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5525/The-Handbook-of-Rationality

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comment by Adam Zerner (adamzerner) · 2023-10-10T05:54:01.494Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Can anyone comment on how related this book is to LessWrong and the rationality community that we're all familiar with?

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↑ comment by MondSemmel · 2023-10-10T08:23:36.117Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

One of the two authors of the book is Wolfgang Spohn, whose work, as recently discussed in this comment thread [LW(p) · GW(p)], overlaps with lots of LW themes. E.g. he wrote a paper where he argued that CDT should one-box.

comment by Dweomite · 2023-10-12T21:33:54.686Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I see a way to download a PDF, and I see a way to view it in a browser via a URL that includes the phase "epubviewer".  Is there a way to download this as an ebook that I have overlooked?

comment by mukashi (adrian-arellano-davin) · 2023-10-10T11:24:33.754Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Thank you so much for sharing, it looks great